Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Sepia Saturday 218 : 8 March 2014

We have Sepian Wendy Mathias to thank for our theme image this week. It is from a series of images showing the areas in Sydney affected by the outbreak of Bubonic Plague in 1900. Wendy suggests fences, back yards or bubonic plague as possible theme suggestions, but, as usual, the choice is yours. All you need to do is to find an old image - whether it is linked to the theme image or not - say a few words about it, post your post on your blog on or around Saturday 8 March 2014, and then add a link to the list below. And if the search for a matching image leaves you pulling your hair out, you can always get your revenge on Wendy and the rest of us by suggesting a theme image yourself. Just drop me an e-mail with a link to the image you want to suggest (please make sure the image is either one of your own or a copyright free one).

Before you fence yourself in with potential images for Sepia Saturday 218, here is a quick preview of what is to come in the next couple of weeks.

Thanks for the inspiration image. The image reminded me of what was going on in my great-grandparents' 'backyard', i.e. their neighbourhood, in the year in which Ireland was visited by the Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919.

This cue image is fascinating! I guess I don't know that much about Bubonic plague... but I'm guessing the fences couldn't have made much of a difference! But, then... I had no idea there had been a Bubonic plague outbreak in Sydney in 1900! So much history to learn, so little time... Always good stuff to be learned over here!

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.